The slides I am interested here are 18-30, the ones covering WebRTC PaaS – the WebRTC API Platform vendors. I took the time to review all the changes we’ve seen throughout 2014 in this space, and they are many.

The WebRTC PaaS market is dynamic and changing on a monthly basis. What I’ve put into this slide doesn’t include moves like Temasys’ SDK, OpenClove’s FreeMAD or Twilio’s NTS – just players that entered this market or left it.

We started here:

And ended here:

The path we take in 2014 with WebRTC PaaS?

It all began more or less when SnapChat acquired AddLive – and took them off market. Being one of the best WebRTC PaaS around, this left a void that wasn’t really filled up until today in the market

Crocodile RCS, another WebRTC PaaS player got acquired by Acision – and turned into Forge. A new WebRTC PaaS platform. If Crocodile had any customers, they probably got migrated to Forge witohut a lot of objections

Rebtel, a VoIP OTT player, spun out Sinch. Took its infrastructure and turned it into a service of its own

ooVoo, another VoIP OTT player, announced their own developer platform. They just didn’t spin it out to a separate entity

Blackboard acquired Requestec, taking them off market. Blackboard is into education services, so the whole Requestec angle of financial and healthcare didn’t make sense. There was little customer backlash, so there probably weren’t many of those for Requestec at the time

Genband, an infrastructure vendor for telcos, announced Kandy – its own version of WebRTC PaaS

Weemo decided to change its name and rebranded as SightCall. I liked the name Weemo more, but no one asks me

Digium launched Respoke. The company behind Asterisk going with a WebRTC PaaS play of its own

Bistri took the time this year to shift its efforts from a service into an API platform for developers

vLine, which I never considered an API platform, but many did – closed their API program

2015 isn’t going to be less dynamic. We will see some players leaving the market and a few others joining in. For some reason, the idea of an API platform is enticing many as a way to make money with WebRTC. It is not an easy route to take.

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Great review Tsahi! 2015 will be very dynamic, since I believe that both MSFT and Apple will start supporting WebRTC in their browsers. We are finishing new VoxImplant’s features to offer full UC stack for developers.

It also varies, simply since some of these vendors don’t really need VC money while others must use it. Modifying the question to which one I’d be happy to work for or get options/stocks at won’t be a good one either, as it will be to personal, and would be based on my own views, which are at the moment optimized for having fun and improving my small world – and not towards maximizing profit.